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windsor: Signs of a "Buy Now" Market - 10/08/11 01:35 PM
Wait! Prices are sure to fall!
Show me the person giving that advice at the peak of the housing bubble and that is someone I will listen to. Anybody saying the same thing about today's market better bring me some evidence.
When times are great and the herd is moving in one direction it's hard to be the lone voice calling for a change in course. We are pack animals and we don't like troublemakers. That's part of the mentality that led to the bubble. Herd thinking might also be contributing to to a large number of ready and willing buyers … (21 comments)
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windsor: Windsor CA Market Report - 2011 through August - 09/27/11 12:58 PM
Windsor was the fastest growing community in Sonoma County for much of the last several decades. Residential subdivisions were being created on both sides of highway 101 and people fretted that Windsor sprawl would chew up the greenbelts between Santa Rosa in the south and Healdsburg in the north. Thanks to urban growth boundaries and the collapse of the housing bubble, we still have the greenbelts.
Residential sales have been strong in 2011. Month by month variations in the mix of sales types are typical in Windsor. The first chart shows both total sales and the breakdown of sales activity among … (0 comments)
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windsor: Healdsburg, Cloverdale, and Windsor in 2011 - 08/19/11 03:01 PM
A Tale of Three Cities
There are three cities in the northern end of Sonoma County that can be considered a shared region. It's about a twenty minute drive from the southern edge of Windsor to the northern end of Cloverdale, so the cities are geographically connected. All feature vineyards and wineries around the edges. Each has a town square of sorts, and each has farmer's markets, music in the evening, some newer subdivisions, and a core of older homes.
Windsor was the fastest growing of these towns and added thousands of housing units in the last few decades. Both Cloverdale … (0 comments)
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windsor: Windsor California Median House Prices in 2009 - 12/05/09 02:14 PM
Windsor California has been through some tough times. Windsor is one of the newer cities in Sonoma County, at least in terms of the housing stock. A lot of Windsor's homes were built just in time to take part in the housing boom. As a consequence, whole neighborhoods paid top prices for their new homes. By now, most of those Windsor neighborhoods have changed hands completely as the original owners lost the homes through foreclosure and default. Windsor prices are still soft, but sales continue brisk for entry level homes. … (1 comments)
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windsor: Is Rohnert Park a Hotter Market than Windsor - 10/20/09 01:59 PM
Families looking for good schools and friendly neighborhoods often look at Rohnert Park and Windsor, the two cities that bracket Santa Rosa on the south and north. Both are reasonably recent towns built during the last half of the last century. Windsor is slightly newer, but Rohnert Park has Sonoma State University and better proximity to Marin and San Francisco.
They have each struggled with the crash of the housing bubble and I wanted to look at the numbers to see the state of the market. I pulled all the sold listings from July through September of 2009 for single family … (1 comments)
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windsor: Windsor CA REO Update - 05/25/09 09:33 AM
I wrote about the red hot REO market in Windsor, California about a month ago. I thought it would be interesting to go back and revisit some of the key ideas to see if the market is just as active. Well, it's great news for the real estate industry in general. For the bargain hunters it's getting harder and harder to be a successful buyer for a foreclosed home in Sonoma County. The REO inventory is flying out the door and isn't being replaced fast enough.
A month ago there were 12 active listings for foreclosed homes in Windsor. That number … (0 comments)
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windsor: I Want My REO! - 04/26/09 11:21 AM
Are real estate agents that good in Sonoma County...or are the banks holding back.
Did Sonoma County agents really clear out almost all the available inventory of REO listings?
Looking for listings for a new client this week I started to realize the pool of available listings was dramatically smaller than it was a few months ago. I pulled the numbers for Windsor, CA where I have been active recently and was astonished to see less than a dozen active listings. Anybody who reads my blog knows I like diving into the numbers when reality slaps me in the face, so … (3 comments)
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windsor: Windsor REO Sales and Bubble Pricing - 11/23/08 06:07 PM
REO sales are the closest thing real estate has to a pure market. No home owner emotional involvement to skew pricing realities, and no short sale issues to confuse the negotiations. I analyzed 119 bank owned homes and condos in Windsor California that have sold this year. All of these homes had either been sold or refinanced between 2003 and 2007 so I could get a clear reading of the market price changes since the peak of the real estate bubble.
First, the good news. Although there has been a significant drop in the market since the peak in late … (0 comments)
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windsor: Windsor bargain homes slide show widget - 11/26/07 01:41 PM
I have been working with RealBird to see what their newest technology will let me do. This is a slideshow widget that provides the results of a search I did for all homes from $300K to $400K in Windsor California. … (11 comments)
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windsor: Why You Should Purchase Your Next Home in Sonoma County, California - 09/15/07 03:57 PM
Hi Paris,
When you sidled up to me at the party and whispered, "You're hot!", and I told you I'd been happily married for thirty years, I thought that would be the last I would hear from you. I was pleased to get your letter talking about how much you already like the wine and food lifestyle in Healdsburg. It's not every day Paris Hilton is looking for a home in Sonoma County. I've put together an overview along with three interesting listings for you. Let me start by saying we're pretty casual in Sonoma County so I hope it's okay to … (9 comments)
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Dave Roberts
Healdsburg,
CA
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Healdsburg Sotheby's International Realty
Address: 709 Healdsburg Avenue, Healdsburg, CA, 95448
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Real estate and green building information for Sonoma County California with an emphasis on Healdsburg, Sebastopol, Forestville, Guerneville, Graton, and the Russian River Valley, Dry Creek Valley. and Alexander Valley.I write a lot about REO property, fixers, luxury estate homes, and vineyard property. I love to analyze sales trends.
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